Research Interests: Device-driven materials development for energy harvesting/storage and steep-slope electronic applications; fundamental interaction between electronic, optical and vibrational degrees of freedom; band gap, band offset, interface and contact engineering; nanomaterials; nanofabrication

Job Interests: Research management position in industry, academia, national lab or privately held research institution

BIOGRAPHYCorsin BATTAGLIA obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Neuch‚tel, Switzerland in 2008 for his work on the structural and electronic properties of self-assembled atomic chains on silicon surfaces. He also worked at Hitachi, Japan and at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. In 2009, he joined EPFLís PV-Lab, Switzerland as a postdoc and project leader where he worked on advanced light management concepts for thin-film silicon solar cells ranging from the development of new substrates and electrode materials to the fabrication and characterization of state-of-the-art cells. Since 2012 he is at UC Berkeley, USA. His current research focuses on novel concepts for thin-film III-V solar cells on non-epitaxial substrates and the development of carrier selective contacts for silicon and III-V solar cells.